August Sperl

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August Sperl (born September 5, 1862 in Fürth , † April 7, 1926 in Würzburg ) was a German archivist , historian and writer .

biography

August Sperl was born in Fürth and grew up in Augsburg with his grandfather Georg Christian August Bomhard in the rectory of St. Jakob. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1881 , August Sperl studied philology and history in Erlangen , Tübingen and Munich . During his studies he became a guest at the Bubenreuth fraternity in Erlangen in 1882 , and later (1913) an honorary philistine.

After studying and doing his doctorate, he was district archives secretary in Amberg from 1887 to 1910, archivist in Castell appointed by Haus Castell , archivist in Nuremberg and from 1910 Reich archivist in Würzburg.

His literary work began with a biographical work about his grandfather, the school councilor Georg Christian August Bomhard, some of whose writings he published ( vital questions ). His main work consists of historical novels and short stories , most of which were created on the basis of real historical circumstances or people, for example the Peasants' War in Franconia in Der Mitläufer , the Thirty Years War in Hans Georg Portner and the first crusades in the story Richiza, which was written in Castell . In 1925, on the 400th anniversary of the German Peasant War, the novel Der Bildschnitzer von Würzburg was published , in which the life of the Franconian woodcarver Tilman Riemenschneider was dealt with in literary terms. His rather comfortable writing style is in the tradition of Gustav Freytag . Sperl's works were published in Germany in large numbers until the 1930s. After that, selected works were only reissued in print and as audio books from the end of the 1990s.

In 1926 Albert Sperl died of a blood disease after being sick for several weeks.

Works (selection)

  • Georg Christian August Bomhard, a life picture from the time of the reawakening of the Protestant Church in Bavaria , CH Beck (Oskar Beck), Munich 1890 (biography).
  • The journey according to the old document, stories and pictures from the life of a German-Bohemian emigrant family , Munich 1893 ( 6th edition in 1902 online  - Internet Archive ).
  • Christian von Bomhard: questions of life, from the papers of a thinker , edit. and ed. by August Sperl, Beck, Munich 1894.
  • The sons of Mr. Budivoy, a seal. 2 volumes, Beck, Munich 1896.
  • Fridtjof Nansen. A song by August Sperl ; Beck, Munich 1898.
  • Hans Georg Portner, an old story , Dt. Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart a. a. 1901.
  • That's it! Serious and joking from old times , German. Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart a. a. 1902 (collection of historical novels).
  • The follower. 1905.
  • Children of their time, stories , Dt. Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart a. a. 1906.
  • The colonel , Behrend, Wiesbaden 1908.
  • Richiza , Dt. Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart a. a. 1909.
  • The council clerk of Landshut , Mühlmann, Halle an der Saale 1910.
  • Guys out! Novel from the time of our deepest humiliation , Beck, Munich 1914.
  • The Archivist, a novel from our time , CH Beck, Munich 1921.
  • The carver of Würzburg , novel poem, German. Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart, Berlin a. a. 1925 (via Tilman Riemenschneider ).
  • The old archivist , poem

literature

  • Killy, Vol. 11, p. 101.
  • F. Fritz: Introduction to August Sperl: The Colonel. The Faquin, a creepy castle story . Behrend, Wiesbaden 1908.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 650–652.
  • Helene Hoffmann: August Sperl and his sources in the first creative period of his life, a literary historical investigation based on his family archive, as well as verbal and written communications from his relatives, relatives and friends . Laßleben, Kallmünz 1935 (also Munich, phil. Diss.)
  • Harry Gerber: August Sperl (Bubenruthia Erlangen). 1862-1926. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter 72nd year 1957, p. 75.
  • Bernhard M. Baron , August Sperl. Franconian writer and local poet of the Upper Palatinate , in: OBERPFÄLZER HEIMATSPIEGEL 2017, ed. from the district home nurse Dr. Tobias Appl, Pressath 2016, ISBN 978-3-939247-81-4 , pp. 58-62.

Web links

Wikisource: August Sperl  - Sources and full texts
Commons : August Sperl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 2, Franconian Society Printing Office, Würzburg 1969, p. 60 ( August-Sperl-Straße ).
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1880/81
  3. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 245.
  4. ↑ Bruno Rottenbach (1969), p. 60.
  5. ↑ Bruno Rottenbach (1969), p. 60.
  6. ↑ Bruno Rottenbach (1969), p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Sperl, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1926
Place of death Wurzburg